I almost cried seeing my grandmother look so frail. She's 76 years old and it pained me to see her look like that. It made me realize I may not have much time with her left and I need to cherish the moments I spend with her.
But do you have any family members that are getting older and how do you feel about it?
Does it do anything to you to see family members getting older?
At one point in my life I was calling her “mama,” because she’d pick me up from school.. cook for me… and she just treated me like I was her daughter…
And whenever I called her “mama…” she answered lol
Now she barely recognizes us. She has severe dementia. My mom refused to put her in a nursing home so they all (my aunts/uncles) help out with taking care of her. Most of the time nurses come to her house to see her… instead of having to take her to the hospital…
Aww that's so sweet but so sad about the dementia. I'm so sorry. My grandmother is fine for now but sometimes she will get our names mixed up but that's pretty normal at that age I think.
Yes… time is precious. At 80 my granny was still able to guide nurses at the hospital. But dementia is a sneaky devil and can progress pretty quickly..
@TonyMetal___86 It’s a LOT to deal with but it is worth it in my opinion. My granny worked hard as a nurse and did a lot for her kids. So they are basically loving her back 🙂
I get emotional when I see my grandma. She's in her 80s every time I see her she gets tinier. She's still very independent tho but my family definitely looks after her as her memory is no longer the same.
It's funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday. The first day of my senior year of high school was the first time I ever had to wait for the bus alone. At least one of my older sisters had just always been there and now they weren't. And it just really hit me so hard how everything is always changing and we are all getting older and we won't always be there for each other. And I just cried like a friggen' baby for about an hour. Yes, I was worried about old age at 18. Lol.
However, after that day it has never really bothered me, like it just gave me a sense of acceptance of life and loss and I know everything is ok no matter what and all I can do is just love them. 💗
My Nana died at 96. She had a pretty good life, living independently well into her 80s and didn't really go downhill sharply until the last 6 months or so. At that age, i think seeing my kids was the most fun she had... she played with them like she was a little girl herself.
Every now and then she would say something that would just stagger me by the passage of time involved. She was born in the 1910s, when cars were rare and electrification was still rolling out. When I consider the world she left compared to the one she entered, it's an amazing effort to adapt as well as she did.
I see myself getting older and am aiming to do my best to stay as healthy as possible. Good on you for seeing that everyone's time is limited and you need to spend more time with your grandmom. That's all you can do. Spend the time and cherish it!
Love is so powerful and beautiful And you have to understand they have gone from a child to their age right now and they're probably scared not knowing where they're headed next so you kind of have to be there for them show them how much you love them care and who you have become in their mind they think everyday what is next what is death what is going on so you have to reassure them every step that you love them and they will be safe there is life after death we are energy make some cookies change her sheets for her cleaner house tell her you love her
I'm at the age where my parents generation are all but gone and everyone around me is aging at amazingly different rates. It is weird. But my attitude is that the alternative to aging is death. So... not much of a choice. And it impresses on me the fact that our lives are finite. So my focus has become not wasting a minute of whatever time I have left before I get hit by a bus or my body gives out.
I've been dealing with this for 15-20 years where everyone around me stopped doing the things they used to enjoy and just settled into acceptance that they "can't do things" any more. Nope, not me. So I defaulted to migrating friend groups periodically to keep on doing what I love to do. Or I go solo if I can't find anyone to go with me.
it weirds me out sometimes when i see that my parents look older, i'm not worried yet because they're only 60, it's just weird. my grandad i'm concerned about because he's almost 88 and his health might be declining. i hope not, i hope he lives much longer, his parents lived to almost 100.
It's a reminder of mortality and the upcoming challenges I will have to deal with as my own parents age. Watching dementia claim my grandmother to where she was frightened because she could not recognize her own children was not an easy thing to deal with. Then watching my grandfather decide to forgo cancer treatment that claimed his life because he had just survived a previous bout with cancer and decided that he did not want to go through the treatment again was also tough.
It also reminds me I need to prepare for when it happens to me by finding other trustworthy people who can support me when I can't support myself.
Yes. One of the saddest part of life is having to see your loved ones get old and frail and know they'll eventually leave you. I'm hoping that David Sinclair's research to reverse aging comes soon, so I don't have to see them go.
For me, it gets harder as I get older. To go from holidays surrounded by about 40+ people, to watching that number lessen over the years hits a sore spot no matter what. At the same time, tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone, young or old. So I just generally try to enjoy my time everyone whenever I see them.
Yeah. It was sad to see my great grandfather and great grandmother (now deceased) decline in their final years. Those two helped raise me so yeah, it was sad.
I'm sad, and a bit worried, but... my grand grandmother lived until she was 95 years old, and my grand grand grandmother was 97 when she passed away, so I really hope that the good genes will keep some of my family member alive for a couple of more decades at least.
this is one of the reasons why I rather focus on a good time, a nice time... and laughs, life should be to enjoy as much as we can... also, while we can...
When i noticed my old relative, couldn't remember who had visited the same day , i was shocked and decided not to waste time visiting if they won't remember i came!
My Grandmother died at 99 when I was 35. That was 10 years ago. She had already buried her husband, all of her friends, most of her cousins and one of her children. I'm not far behind her in burials.
Yeah, it sucks. My father had 4 siblings. He and three have passed already and his brother was just diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. An entire generation is wiped out.
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